Ofsted-rated Outstanding RC School and Sixth Form with 140 years of tradition. We serve communities in Lambeth, Wandsworth, Croydon, Southwark & Merton.
We have some amazing news! We have received tickets for 17 students and 3 staff to attend the highly-anticipated and sold-out Michelle Obama talk at the Royal Festival Hall in December - the students will also feature on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss the event! More info soon!
🎬 Delighted to hear that former La Retraite student Cynthia Erivo has been cast in the upcoming
#Wicked
movie alongside Ariana Grande - we'll definitely be sending our
#Drama
students to see it at premiere!
#CynthiaErivo
#Alumni
#LaRetraiteLegacy
Mr Campbell gave a fascinating insight of his conversation with Nelson Mandela who told him "It's impossible until it happens" - something we should all keep in mind.
This week in
#PSHE
students have been looking at 21st century black icons and discovering the contributions they have made and are continuing to make. We have looked at
@SophiaThakur
@GeorgeThePoet
, Stormzy and
@malorieblackman
to name a few!
We're thrilled to host former students who are speaking to Year 11 students about their experiences and how they navigate life as Black Christian women, helping us to celebrate
#BlackHistoryMonth
- including
#alumni
and current RE teacher Ms Boakye!
#InspirationalBlackWomen
Congratulations Taiwo for your outstanding achievement of 9999888887! Taiwo plans to attend an Oxbridge Univeristy to read medicine in the future. “This wouldn’t have been possible without my teachers support and encouragement to achieve my goals”.
#GCSEResultsDay2022
For our Year 11 students at this difficult time, our KS4 PSM, Ms Adams, had recorded this message for you.
Please remember, from all La Retraite staff, that you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and loved more than you know.
#Year11
Some more great results... Cassandra on the left has achieved a whopping A*A*AA and is off to Durham to study English - well done! Priscilla on the right has worked hard and has a number of unis to choose from to study Psychology!
#alevelresults
#alevelresultsday2019
Former student Fiona Asiedu wowed a crowd speaking at the British Embassy in Washington on her experience studying at Harvard and the importance and value of the Fulbright Commission - what an achievement!
#FulbrightScholar
Due to poor air quality in Lambeth & wider London, we advise parents/guardians not to drive children to and from school as this exacerbates pollution in the school vicinity. For those who continue to drive, we ask parents/guardians not to idle their engines outside the school.
We're incredibly proud of our
#partnership
with Streatham & Clapham High School, and so grateful to all the opportunities they are able to share with our students - from Combined Cadets Force to GCSE Classics.
#ThankYou
@SCHSgdst
@SineMetuSCHS
To our brilliant Year 13 cohort, from all staff at La Retraite, this is an unexpected close to your time here, but your resilience and courage over the past few days and weeks have inspired us all.
Good luck and remember, you will always have a place at La Retraite.
#Year13
Some of our Key Worker children have spent their time at school getting
#creative
and producing these wonderful pieces of
#art
inspired by
@BobandRoberta
- very well done, we can't wait to put these on display!
#CreativeArts
Congratulations to all of our students on their
#GCSE
successes today. Based on last year’s results, this score would place us within the top 300 schools in the country!
Year 8 & 9 students are enjoying a great day out with
@CDW_UK
and
@Stemettes
to find out more about getting into
#STEM
careers with speed networking activities and mentoring opportunities - sounds like great fun!
#CDWstemettes
#GirlsInSTEM
Our Students were fortunate to meet the former librarian and popular American author Dhonielle Clayton
@brownbookworm
at
@brixtonlibrary
It was a great experience for them.
Today we welcome former student and Labour councillor Nanda Manley-Browne who has returned to La Retraite to speak to students on her journey and life into local
#politics
- we're delighted to have her back and very grateful for her insights.
@ManleyNanda
#alumni
Huge congratulations goes to Naomi in Year 11 who was awarded the Jack Petchey Achievement Award for young carers - we're incredibly proud!
@JPFoundation
#JackPetchey
#YoungCarers
Great to have Bell Ribeiro Addy - Labour candidate for
#Streatham
- join us this morning to discuss her inspirational journey into
#politics
with our Year 12&13 students - thank you so much for visiting us
@BellRibeiroAddy
We are thrilled to announce that our Combined Cadet Force (Royal Navy) section, with Streatham & Clapham High School, has been successfully launched! A huge thank you goes to all involved in the ceremony, our cadets, and our esteemed guests joining us today.
Congratulations to Sasha in Year 8 for her first published story in the Young Writers’ Competition 2021 anthology "My Name is..."
@Wimbookfest
and to the rest of students who were commended and got their certificates!
#library
#competitions
Excellent news! Year 8 Mia performed brilliantly at a trial with
#Chelsea
#Football
club and has been accepted to play for
@ChelseaFC
! Mia's skills have been called 'outstanding' by scouts and we're incredibly proud of her! Here, she's pictured here receiving the good news.
We are very grateful for a Donation of £5,000 to our laptop fund from
@LiveryLSL
and four City of London Livery Companies – The Barbers, Bakers, Builders Merchants and Carmen”
Great to see that it is now more difficult to find a parking space for our
#bikes
than for cars! Shout-out to the
#cyclists
in our school community, students and staff, riding bikes and reducing our carbon footprint!
#cycling
#2wheelsarebetterthan4
A big thank to
@itvnews
@MartinStewITV
for coming to school, to talk to us about our laptop appeal. This is being broadcast at 6pm tonight on ITV news. Please help with our fundraising campaign if you can.
We'd like to congratulate all of our Year 13 students. Regardless of their final grades, we have seen their hard work and determined attitudes, and we are exceptionally proud of all of them. Well done to all, and we wish you all the very best for the future!
#ALevelResultsDay2019
We're full steam ahead with providing
#Chromebooks
to every one of our La Retraite students. KS4 & KS5 students are already settling in to using their in lessons and remotely, Year 9 will be picking theirs up from this week, with Years 7 & 8 following soon!
#EndTheDigitalDivide
We are delighted to announce that we have been announced as a Champion School and awarded a GOLD award by the NCS (National Citizen Service) - very exciting, thank you
@NCS
!
#NCSthechallenge
Sixth Form students and staff are jetting off for an action-packed few days in Washington DC today! There's been a real excitement in the air this week - photos and news of their trip to follow after the weekend.
#WashingtonDC
#sixthform
Our Year 8 students were visited by Rupali Sharma Patel, Senior
#Architect
and
#Engineering
Lead at
#TfL
who is currently working on the
#NineElms
regeneration project. Rupali gave a fascinating insight into how she became an architect, her
#career
& what a typical day involves.
Great news! From the end of the month, Year 12 twins Ruth & Elizabeth will join University College, London
@UCL
for problem solving classes, and Grace & Jessica, also Year 12, will be taking similar classes with Queen Mary University of London
@QMUL
- well done, all!
We're
#fundraising
to promote access for all by purchasing laptops for our students. Every student has the right to access a strong education; race & financial status should not be a barrier to a better future. Please help if you can, thank you -
Well done to our Deputy Premises Manager, Mr Skalbania, who heroically rescued a very nervous
#cat
from the large tree in our school grounds. No good deed goes unpunished, as proven by the scratches Mr Skalbania received in the process!
#gooddeed
#hero
We're delighted that Kasablanca's outstanding A Level results (A*A*AA!) have been featured in an article by the Wandsworth Guardian - you can read more here and again, very well done, Kasablanca!
#alevelresultsday2019
#alevelresults
More news from our Sixth Form trip to
#WashingtonDC
- students have visited high-profile areas including the J Edgar Hoover FBI Building, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the US Capitol Building. A fantastic insight into US
#Politics
Huge thanks to the gents from
@FrontlineLH
for their workshops with
#GCSE
#History
students yesterday, showing the harrowing reality of life during
#WorldWarI
through remarkable stories & artefacts from the
#trenches
, enriching the students' understanding of
#wartime
.
Well done to our
#Year7
#Historians
who gave confident and well-researched presentations on 'Who should be King in 1066?'. Our
#History
teachers were incredibly impressed with the effort put into creating their visual materials and delivering to an audience.
We're
#fundraising
to promote access for all by purchasing laptops for our students. Every student has the right to access a strong education; race & financial status should not be a barrier to a better future. Please help if you can, thank you
Fantastic report this evening on
@Itvlondonnews
. Our Director of Learning Ruth Coyle spoke to reporter Martin Stew about our appeal for laptops for our disadvantaged students.
Please donate if you can.
#itvnews
#accessforall
#LaRetraite
Some excellent news from Year 13 student, Cris... We're thrilled to hear that he has been accepted for a degree apprenticeship with
@BNYMellon
and its subsidiary
@NewtonIM
. He's worked incredibly hard to achieve this and we can't wait to hear more once he begins later this year!
Our Gospel Choir is simply stunning, here's a clip of their performance to an amazed crowd at St George's Cathedral. We are blessed to enjoy such inspiring talent. See the full video here
#gospelchoir
@StGeorgesCath
Good-bye dark & dingy Science Lab - the refurbishment of two science labs starts today. Thank you
@wolfsonfdn
for giving us this wonderful opportunity. Watch this space!
Massive well done to Atinuke, on achieving 9888888776 in Biology, Maths, English Literature + Language, History, RE, Physics, Chemistry and French. We are incredibly proud of your achievements! Best of luck for the future.
#gcseresults2021
Our fantastic Tour Choir performed to crowds at Disneyland Paris yesterday - here's a clip from their rendition of 'Million Dreams' from The Greatest Showman. Brilliant work, all!
#tourchoir
#choir
@DisneyParis_EN
Let it be known that La Retraite staff never back down to a challenge... Sixth Form boys
#football
team challenged staff to a tough match last night and the adults fought valiantly. Sadly, the teens were just too good and thrashed the staff 6-4! Well done, all!
#winners
Congratulations to our students who attended the
#PhoenixBookAward
and won the book quiz and the prize for best performance of their chosen book. Here's a selection of pics from the day, well done all!
@LambethPhoenix
#Lambeth
Wonderful to see former La Retraite student Cynthia Erivo in the press this week talking about her journey to stardom and her upcoming role as Aretha Franklin!
#alumni
#CynthiaErivo
Congratulations to Holly (Yr 13) and Chloe (Yr 10) who were stars of the show at the Careers Cluster event at City Hall this morning
#cityhall
# careercluster
Students were thrilled to attend Hillary & Chelsea Clinton's exclusive event this weekend, discussing their new book
#TheBookofGutsyWomen
Students had a fantastic attitude and listened astutely as the Clinton's spoke to Prof. Mary Beard on resilient women throughout history.
Students of Drama and Theatre from Yrs 10, 11 and 12 thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the West End musical
@KinkyBootsUK
where the ultimate message, was “accept someone for who they are”
Our Sixth Form drama students were treated to a trip to the West End to watch a thought-provoking production of The Convert at the Young Vic Theatre.
@YVTakingPart
Here are some of the new
#Year12
#TLevel
students completing their problem solving challenges in teams, practicing the skills they need to help them develop programs for solving real world problems.
@TLevels_govuk
#TLevelDigital
Good luck to all
#Year11
students getting their
#GCSE
results this morning. Our Year 11s have shown that hard work, dedication and perseverance pays off.
#GCSEResults2020
We have raised a massive £50,000 from donations, including a £5,000 from the amazing livery company and £35,00 from ESFA! This is just fantastic and will help some of our students to study over the summer.
We still need your help
Huge congratulations and a hearty 'well done' to Esther who achieved the best results of our Year 13s with A*AAA, going off to UCL!
#alevelresultsday
#LaRetraiteWhatWeOffer
Our
#Library
clubs have begun, with
#BookClub
on Wednesdays,
#drawing
Club on Thursdays and
#games
club on Fridays. Pop by the library and enjoy some fun activities - coming soon,
#chess
competitions!
Year 13 student Emmanuella recently took part in the Fashion Futures Final -
@FADCharity
- creating a garment based on Ghanaian patriotism and pro-blackness generally and we're pleased to announce she was chosen as joint winner! Well done!
It was wonderful to hear so many well conceived, intelligent and focussed ideas from Yr11s today about the implications of leaving the EU for them and the wider population when we visited Europe House
@EU_Commission
today
Our Year 10
#Childcare
group have prepared nutritious two-course meals for a 4-year-old child as part of their assessments. Looks delicious, smells amazing!
#nutrition
#HealthyEating
NOTICE: Centre Assessment Grades (CAG) will be sent to all Year 13 students tomorrow (Tuesday 18 August) in light of the government announcement at 4pm today.
Our fantastic Tour Choir is getting a final bit of practice this afternoon, before heading off for their whirlwind tour of Paris from tomorrow. Students are particularly excited to be performing at Disneyland Paris! More photos to follow this week, stay tuned!
#tourchoir
It's that time of year again - buy your stationery, dig out your uniform from the back of the wardrobe, and set your morning alarms... We're going back to school!
#BacktoSchool
#September
Let's take a moment, after the difficulties of the last week, to pause this morning. Take a deep breath. Take another.
Students, staff, families, our community,
#Lambeth
,
#London
and beyond: practice self care, be calm, and know that this too will pass.
#COVIDcalm
Huge congratulations goes to the brilliant Dr Joanna Abeyie MBE on being awarded an MBE for services to diversity in the Media and Creative Industries - such incredibly valuable work and we are so proud of this La Retraite alumna!
@Joanna_Abeyie
#queenshonourslist
#alumni
Students from all
#Lambeth
school celebrated the love of reading
@LambethPhoenix
Ceremony Award.
Proud of our students who worked hard to win the quiz!
Congratulations to
@kereengetten
who won the book club.
The
#books
are available in the library!
Videos of our fantastic Tour Choir performing for crowds at Disneyland Paris are now available on our YouTube channel! Please visit for the full playlist.
#tourchoir
#choir
#DisneylandParis
Well done!
#GCSEResultsDay
students have done very well and worked hard to receive great results! we look forward to welcoming students into
@LaRetraite6